Dr Aisling Daly

BSc. Human Nutrition, MSc. Nutrition for Global Health, PhD Nutrition

Lecturer in Nutrition

School of Sport, Nutrition and Allied Health Professions

Role

My role predominantly relates to teaching and student support. I am lead for student experience within the nutrition team and aim to enhance the experience of our students during their time at Oxford Brookes, by supporting networking events, engagement with community outreach events (e.g. Science Bazaar), and encouraing students to submit their work to conference presentations. I actively engage with prospective students through oepn days and school outreach events.

Teaching and supervision

Modules taught

I teach on the BSc. Human Nutrition and MSc. Applied Human Nutrition and provide project supervision to students on both the BSc. and MSc. programmes.

Module Leader:

NUTR4006 - Food Groups
NUTR5004 - Nutritional Biochemistry & Metabolism
NUTR5006 - Professional Practice for Nutritionists 2
NUTR5008 - Applied Human Nutrition.
NUTR5003 - Motivating Health Behaviour (co-lead)
NUTR6008 - Nutrition research project (co-lead)
NUTR7005 - Nutrition, Physical Activity & Health (interim lead)

Additonally, I teach ad-hoc sessions on the following modules:

NUTR5018 - Research methods for nutrition and health sciences (qualitative research)
NUTR6004 - Professional Practice for Nutritionists 3
NUTR6008 - Global Nutrition, Public Health & Policy
NUTR7001 - Fundamentals of Human Nutrition
NUTR7008 - Global Nutriton and Public Health
NUTR7004 - Research methods (qualitative research)

Research

My research interests relate to eating behaviours and motivations for food choice. Most recently, my PhD research focussed on food choices and eating behaviours in adolescents, an interesting yet challenging cohort to research and work with. Prior to this, I worked largely in the area of global public health nutrition, mainly focussing on breastfeeding and support for new mothers. I continue to work in this area through support to the Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN).

My research continues to explore areas of emotional and intuitive eating, the connections between food and mood, the relative impact of the environment and emotions on food choices, and the role of food guilt in food chocies.

Research group membership

Child and Young People Network

Centres and institutes

Oxford Brookes Centre for Nutrition and Health

Publications

Daly AN, Kearney JM, O’Sullivan EJ, The underlying role of food guilt in adolescent food choice: A potential conceptual model for adolescent food choice negotiations under circumstances of of conscious internal conflict
Appetite 192 (2023) ISSN: 0195-6663 eISSN: 1095-8304 The underlying role of food guilt in adolescent food choice: A potential conceptual model for adolescent food choice negotiations under circumstances of of conscious internal conflict Open Access version on RADAR
Daly AN, O’Sullivan EJ, Walton J, Kehoe L, McNulty BA, Flynn A, Kearney JM, Determining the food choice motivations of Irish teens and their association with dietary intakes, using the Food Choice Questionnaire
Appetite 189 (2023) ISSN: 0195-6663 eISSN: 1095-8304 Determining the food choice motivations of Irish teens and their association with dietary intakes, using the Food Choice Questionnaire Open Access version on RADAR
Daly AN, O'Sullivan EJ, Kearney JM, Considerations for health and food choice in adolescents
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 81 (2021) pp.75-86 ISSN: 0029-6651 eISSN: 1475-2719
Daly AN, O’Sullivan EJ, Walton J, McNulty BA, Kearney JM, Eating behaviour styles in Irish teens: a cross-sectional study
Public Health Nutrition 24 (8) (2020) pp.2144-2152 ISSN: 1368-9800 eISSN: 1475-2727

Daly AN, O'Sullivan EJ, McNulty BA, Walton J, Kearney JM, Eating behaviour styles and their association with sex, BMI and energy intake in Irish teens from the National Teens' Food Survey II
81 (OCE1) (2022) pp.E18-
Daly AN, O'Sullivan EJ, McNulty BA, Walton J, Kearney JM, Motivations for food choices in Irish teens from the National Teens' Food Survey II
81 (OCE1) (2022) pp.7-8
Daly AN, Kearney JM, O'Sullivan EJ, A qualitative exploration into the factors that influence Irish teens’ food choices
80 (OCE3) (2021) pp.E118-

Professional information

Memberships of professional bodies

Association for Nutrition RNutr #21226
Member of the Nutrition Society

Areas of expertise

Adolescent nutrition
Emotional eating
Food choice
Eating behaviours
Breastfeeding
Global nutrition
Public health nutrition
Qualitative research
Mixed methods research.

Further details

Other experience

Assistant Lecturer in Nutrition at Technological University Dublin
Part-time lecturer at Dublin City University
Research assistant at the Institute of Food and Health in University College Dublin
Nutrition Specialist at UNICEF Vietnam
Nutrition Project Coordinator with GOAL Global